It’s not exactly new, but there will be an extra star in the sky that will be visible to the naked eye in the coming months. T Coronae Borealis is a binary star system comprised of a cool red ...

Did you catch this year's solar eclipse and the Aurora Borealis? There have been several opportunities to witness cosmic events over the last few months. So many others, like Halley's Comet or the ...

Astronomers have detected a previously unknown type of stellar explosion called a micronova involving thermonuclear blasts at the polar regions of a type of burned-out star called a white dwarf ...

This summer, a rare stellar explosion will be visible to the naked eye, as predicted by NASA. The event is expected to occur between now and September. Known as T Coronae Borealis or the "Blaze ...

The rapid spin of this white dwarf, that is vampirically taking stellar matter away from a companion star, could be explained by its shrinking radius. While the white dwarf won't erupt in a supernova ...

New ground- and space-based infrared observations are giving astronomers a better handle on the true populations of red ...